Proof Positive

The game Trivia Crack has been around nearly a year and a half, but it didn’t come under my radar until this month. It hasn’t replaced Words with Friends as my principle time thief, but it certainly qualifies as an addiction. A good chunk of my brain is storage space for otherwise useless trivia, like the number of players in a baseball team or the name of the capitol of Wisconsin. It’s nice to finally put some of it to good use. The other day, though, I gave a wrong answer to “How did Henry VIII’s wife Jane Seymour die?” I remembered the mnemonic, “Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived” that describes the chronological ends of Henry’s six wives. What I forgot was, “Arrogant Bull Sees Cleaners Hair Parted,” which puts those wives in the proper order: Katharine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour (who died in childbirth), Anne of Cleaves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. Nuts.